CVE-2022-22759Protection Mechanism Failure in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
9.6CRITICALNVD
OSV8.8
EPSS
0.3%
top 50.06%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 22

Description

If a document created a sandboxed iframe without allow-scripts, and subsequently appended an element to the iframe's document that e.g. had a JavaScript event handler - the event handler would have run despite the iframe's sandbox. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97, Thunderbird < 91.6, and Firefox ESR < 91.6.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 6.0

Affected Packages9 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified97
NVDmozilla/firefox< 97.0
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified91.6
Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 97.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
OSV
CVE-2022-22759: If a document created a sandboxed iframe without allow-scripts, and subsequently appended an element to the iframe's document that e2022-12-22
CVEList
CVE-2022-22759: If a document created a sandboxed iframe without allow-scripts, and subsequently appended an element to the iframe's document that e2022-12-22
GHSA
GHSA-7qpp-mq9c-7449: If a document created a sandboxed iframe without allow-scripts, and subsequently appended an element to the iframe's document that e2022-12-22
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2022-03-23
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities2022-02-14

📋Vendor Advisories

7
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2022-03-23
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2022-02-14
Red Hat
Mozilla: Sandboxed iframes could have executed script if the parent appended elements2022-02-08
Debian
CVE-2022-22759: firefox - If a document created a sandboxed iframe without <code>allow-scripts</code>, and...2022
Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2022-06: CVE-2022-22759
CVE-2022-22759 — Protection Mechanism Failure | cvebase